POC - 2024 Intel Summit

2024 Intel Summit | Potomac Officers Club

WHAT

As the nature of intelligence evolves, the U.S. Intelligence Community is constantly adapting in order to stay ahead of new threats, technologies, global events and adversarial capabilities, especially in the peer competition era. Today’s IC leaders are looking at ways to update the intelligence tradecraft, adopt cutting-edge technologies, become more agile, embrace reform and adapt to new classification trends. The Potomac Officers Club’s 2024 Intel Summit celebrates a decade of bringing together the top IC officials, government decision makers and industry executives to discuss the challenges, opportunities, innovation initiatives and technologies shaping the future of American intelligence.

WHEN

Thursday, September 19, 2024
7:00am - 3:45pm
Eastern Time Zone

WHERE

Hilton-McLean
7920 Jones Branch Drive
McLean, VA 22102

Keynote Speakers

Speakers

Brad Ahlskog

Chief, Open-Source Intelligence Integration Center

Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)

Kendra Albanese

Customer Relations Excutive

CACI

Dr. Jessica Appler

Director, Maintaining Technology Advantage

U.S. Department of Defense (DOD)

Rich Baich

Senior Vice President & Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)

AT&T

Erik Blasch

Program Officer at Air Force Office of Scientific Research

Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)

Mark Chatelain

Chief Information Officer and Director, Chief Information Officer & IT Services Component

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)

Dale Chidester

DCIO, Cybersecurity and Operations

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

Jim Edwards

Chief Growth Officer

SOSi

Ian Fowlie

Chief, Engineering, Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO)

Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)

Jimmy L. Hall, Jr.

INR CIO

U.S. Department of State

Andy Henson

Vice President, Artificial Intelligence

SAIC

Tereza Jacoby

Director, National Security

Splunk

David Marlowe

Former Deputy Director of CIA for Operations and Vice President

Amentum

Special Agent Sarah Masiello

Liaison Officer, Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI)

Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI), SAF/AQ

Jay Meil

VP Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics (and Chief Data Scientist)

SAIC

Gregg Melanson

Chief Growth Officer

Acuity, Inc.

Ramesh Menon

CTO and Chief AI Officer

Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)

Frank Miller

Vice President for Intelligence Integration

Exovera

Mark Munsell

Director, Data and Digital Innovation

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)

Matthew Ross

Executive Director of Global Integration

Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)

Brian Schreffler

Founder & CEO: Former ODNI CTO (Ret July 2024)

Binary Knowledge Solutions LLC

Lindsey Sheppard

Deputy Director, Advanced Command and Control Accelerator

CDAO

Margaret Smith

Defense and Intelligence Data and AI Growth Lead

Accenture Federal Services

CAPT Herbert Thompson

Deputy Director, Maven

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)

Sean Underwood

Vice President, Public Sector

ShadowDragon

Carey Vereen

Senior Customer Relations Executive

CACI

KC Wilberg

Vice President, Intelligence Community

Acuity, Inc.

Dr. Timothy I. Wood

Deputy Program Chief, Machine-Assisted Analytic Rapid-Repository System (MARS)

Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)

Agenda

7:00am 8:00am Networking Reception
8:00am 8:05am Welcome & Opening Remarks
8:05am 8:45am Opening Keynote: Nand Mulchandani
Keynote Introducer: Andy Henson
8:45am 9:20am Morning Keynote: Dr. William Benard
Keynote Introducer: Frank Miller
9:20am 9:50am Networking Break
9:50am 10:50am Panel A: Accelerating Mission IT for the Intelligence Community: Mark Chatelain, Dale Chidester, Jay Meil (Moderator) and Margaret Smith
9:50am 10:50am Panel B: Driving Intelligence Outcomes: Strategic Data Enablement and AI in the IC: Jimmy Hall Jr., Ramesh Menon, Brian Schreffler, and KC Wilberg (Moderator)
10:50am 11:00am Break
11:00am 12:00pm Panel A: OSINT and AI: Industry as an Enabler: Brad Ahlskog, Jim Edwards (Moderator), Frank Miller and Sean Underwood
11:00am 12:00pm Panel B: IC and DoD Integration for Decision Advantage: Kendra Albanese (Moderator), Captain Herbert Thompson, Lindsey Sheppard and Dr. Timothy Wood
12:00pm 1:00pm Networking Lunch
1:00pm 2:00pm Panel A: Government and Industry Collaboration in Transition to Great Power Competition: Dr. Jessica Appler, David Marlowe (Moderator), Special Agent Sarah Masiello and Matthew Ross
1:00pm 2:00pm Panel B: Expanding Mission Visibility Through Data Centricity and Tool Consolidation: Rich Baich, Erik Blasch, Ian Fowlie, Tereza Jacoby (Moderator) and Mark Munsell
2:00pm 2:30pm Networking Break
2:30pm 3:05pm Afternoon Keynote: Ryan Young
Keynote Introducer: Carey Vereen
3:05pm 3:40pm Closing Keynote: Dana Madsen
Keynote Introducer: Gregg Melanson
3:40pm 3:50pm Closing Comments
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